Saturday, 18 June 2016

Has
a KRAKEN been spotted on Google Earth? Monster hunters claim to have found 120m
long giant squid-like creature

Used
Google Earth to find size of creature which showed 30m (100 feet)

Sighting
occurred on April 9, 2016 using 63° 2'56.73"S 60°57'32.38"W

Said it
must be the Kraken, but also looks like a Plesiosaur

Another
theory is this disturbance could be an underwater UFO

Nordic folklore speaks of a massive creature that
haunted the icy seas of the North Sea, where it attacked passing vessels with
gigantic tentacles.And conspiracy theorists claims to have spotted this
mythical Kraken swimming off the coast of Deception Island near Antarctica.Using
Google Earth, this sea monster appears to be 120m from head to end, with ‘the
mid area of a giant squid’.

Monday, 6 June 2016

It is said that there is a monster in Lake Edward called the irizima; which apparently means 'the-thing-that-may-not-be-spoken-of.' The indigenous people who live near Lake Edward in Zaire refer to it as a "gigantic hippopotamus with the horns of a rhinoceros on its head. "The lake is said to have an average depth of 111 m/364 ft. It is has good fish stocks is said to be free from crocodiles.

Some describe the creature as a gigantic hippopotamus with the horns of a rhinoceros upon its head, others say the
irizima is a marsh monster with a hippo's legs, an elephant' trunk, a
lizard's head, and an aardvark's tail. The creature seems to have been
seen in many places around that area of Africa.

The
story goes that Lewanika, King of the Barotse, saw the beast in the
marshes of his land, and set a special warrior watch to capture it. 'A
monster,' says he in his official report to the British Government,
'with a head like a snake, making a huge track in the reeds as large as a
full-sized wagon would make were its wheels removed.'

J.E. Hughes in 1933. wrote in his book “Eighteen Years on Lake Bangweulu” that the Wa-Ushi tribesmen had killed such a creature along the Luapula River,
between Lakes Mweru and Bangweulu. It is described as having a smooth
body, without bristles, and armed with a single smooth horn fixed like
that of a rhinoceros, but composed of smooth white ivory, very highly
polished.

In December, 1919, the London Daily Mail published a letter from C.G. James, who had lived in what is now Zambia. He reported that there was an
enormous beast with a single ivory horn living in the waters of Lakes
Bangweulu and the surrounding lakes and swamps. James said this animal
was called "Chipekwe" by the natives. The same creature is also
mentioned in both Millais’ 1924 book “Far away up the Nile”

So
what is or was this mysterious creature? It appears to live in more
than one place in the area. Some say it is a quiet hervibore others that
it attacks other animals. Could it be more than one species of
creature? That would explain the differing descriptions. It sounds like a
hybrid of two other creatures but whether a hippo and a rhinoceros
would mate is debateable. Certainly one to add to the pile of
unexplained and intriguing tales,

Lake Temiskaming in Quebec is a deep lake around 720 feet at it’s deepest point . A lake monster known as "Mugwump."is said to inhabit the lake.

The
first published story of it appears to be by the then mayor of New
Liskeard Jack Dent. In an April 20, 1979 he wrote an article in The
North Bay Nugget newspaper in which he discussed the creature. According to Mayor Dent:

“…
the Indian word, “mugwump” means fearless sturgeon and is all part of a
very old Indian legend from an old Indian…”a direct descendant of Chief
Wabi” who told him the mugwump was reputed to be the length of four
Indian braves. Putting the average height of a brave at about five feet…
concluded the mugwump was probably over 20 feet long…”Mayor Dent said he had only heard of the animal in 1969

Then in February 2, 1982 an article appeared by
Alice Peeper in The Temiskaming Speaker, a Mrs. Kate Ardtree recalled
her father telling stories about the animal as a child. Mrs Ardtree was
elderly at the time so the story must have been from 1920’s or 1930’s.
Mrs. Ardtree had never seen the animal herself. “…Sure I
know about it, or should I say them?” she smiled. “I well remember my
daddy talking about the monster.” Mrs. Ardtree also remembers her Dad
bringing home one of its scales when she was just a girl. The scale was
as big as a saucer and the family had it around the house for years….”

Dariene
Wroe then wrote in the August 9, 1995 issue of The Temiskaming Speaker
about the story of John Cobb. Cobb , then 83 years old, recalled an
event from the early 1940’s when he worked on the tugboats moving logs
along the lake.

“…One
night I was coming up just about dark and I seen the darn thing in the
lake.” He describes a creature about 20 feet long with a round head and
nose like an animal’s. “I didn’t know what it was. When we come up close
it disappeared…”

Then Chuck
Coull outlined his encounter with a strange beast in the lake to
journalist Mike Pearson in 1979. He claimed it happened in the early
1960’s:

“…We were cruising around in the boat, about a third of the way back from Burnt Island,
when we saw what looked like a deadhead. We pulled up to it. It rolled
over and swam away…. It was the biggest sturgeon you’ve ever seen… I’d
been hearing about the thing all my life….”Chuck Coull was with his father at the time and estimates the animal sighted was around 8 feet long.

The Temiskaming Speaker also had reported that in 1978, Ernie Chartrand and his wife, who lived in the town of Haileybury,
were seated at a table in The Matabanick, a local Hotel, where they had
a good view of the lake. Their attention was drawn to "something" that
was moving shoreward at a very fast pace. As it was nearing the shore,
it did a sudden and complete turnabout and headed out back to deep
water. Both Mr. and Mrs. Chartrand had noticed that this "thing" had a
large humped back, and they noticed that it had no fins along its side
or back, as itswam away. According to The Speaker, Ernie stated that it
must have been 15 feet long. He further stated that he will go on record
anytime as to his sighting of the Lake Temiskaming monster” (The Temiskaming Speaker February 3, 1982)

Another article by Alice
Peeper of the The Temiskaming Speaker appeared February 17, 1982. This
time it was the story of Roger Lapointe and Dan Arney who were ice
fishing at the time in a borrowed hut.

According
to Roger Lapointe and Dan Arney of Cobalt,the two men decided to try
their luck at ice-fishing so they managed to borrow a friend's
ice-fishing hut for a night.They had just settled in, when their tip-ups
started to agitate in an alarming manner. Hauling the lines in, they
discovered their bait and lines were missing. It looked like they were
sheared right off, the men had reported later. Resetting the line, they
settled back with a brew and were wondering what was stirring in the
depths below the fish-hut, when in about 20 minutes, or perhaps half an
hour, their tackle flew right up in the air and then vanished down the
hole. The men were dumb-founded! "To hell with this," Lapointe relates,
"Let's pack it in", and Arney agreed. They were donning their parkas,
when Arney said he could feel the small hairs on the back of his neck
stiffen (this sixth sense had served him well in the RCMP back a dozen
years). Arney said he just knew that something was watching them as he
reached out and put a silencing grip on his partner's arm and they began
to survey the half-dark interior of the hut. Looking downwards at the
fishing hole, they saw a black, glistening head with protruding
eyeballs, and one of these eyes was staring fixedly at the men "like it
was sizing us up for a snack", Lapointe remarked. When Arney shouted,
"Let's get the hell out of here", he lost no time in following him out
the door. They leaped aboard their snow machine and raced for shore.
When contacted about their experience, both men agreed there was
"something" out there in the lake, alright.

Another sighting of the Lake Timiskaming monster has been made by John Sheur of New Liskeard, who claims he saw the monster quite recently. Mr.
Sheur says he was locking up his ice-fishing hut for the night, when he
heard a crunching noise. Knowing he was the only fisherman still out on
the lake, he decided to see what it was about. Thinking it was probably
a dog, he almost walked into a long, dark animal, that seemed to be
wrapped about several of the ice-fishing huts and was chewing something,
said Sheur. What did its head look like? the reporter asked. Something
like a dinosaur, said Sheur, "but I didn't stay for a second look."
Sheur had dashed for shore on his snow machine and, rushing into a local
hotel, tried to get several men to go out and investigate. Two men
finally decided to go take a look, but all they found was a rather
snake-like trail in the snow. They also noticed that one of the fish-hut
doors was wide open. Someone had forgotten to secure it, so the men
closed it against the drifting snow. Mr. Harmon of Haileybury, who has
an ice-fishing hut near where the incident occurred, said it was the
darndest thing that he had been losing line and fish left out in the
snow. He presumed it was stray dogs, but now he's not so sure!

So
what is it? Well a sturgeon would not come ashore on the ice so could
it be our old standby a giant eel? Or could it be more than one creature
lives in the lake? It is deep enough to hold more than one large
predator, so perhaps there is a large sturgeon and something else in the
deep waters.

The strange, slithery creatures inside Slovenia's Postojna cave were once
considered living proof that dragons existed, prompting locals to give it a
wide berth.Now, large crowds from all over the world have been queueing up to
witness the extremely rare hatching of the mysterious olms - ancient underwater
predators that can live up to 100 years and only breed once in a decade.Their
treat came yesterday when the translucent larva broke through the delicate egg
envelope after four months of nervously monitored gestation The birth, caught
on live camera, is nothing short of "a miracle", cave spokesmen said."A
mere two baby olms successfully hatch from 500 eggs in nature," they said
in a jubilant statement.Found primarily in Balkan cave rivers, the protected
eel-like species has been living in the Postojna cave, 50km southwest of the
capital Ljubljana, for what researchers say is millions of years.See pics read rest here:

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